Sentences with phrase «votes of people»

The money from the hotels versus the votes of the people.

To earn the trust and the votes of the people, businesses, and civic organizations and charities in your community, they have to believe that you are looking out for their best interest.

will respect the votes of the people or the majorities in both houses of Congress, though.

The votes of the people will have to be earned with solid platforms and performance in office.

Ultimately winning at politics does not depend upon actually being savvy about science, it depends upon winning the votes of people who may or may not want to believe in the basic truths of the universe so long as they can still play Nintendo and drive to work each morning by burning the remains of carboniferous period plants.

Perhaps before the voters go to the polls Mr Livingstone might consider announcing that he does not want the first or second preference votes of people who support terrorism.

This is a democracy and overturning the votes of people are more than enough to get her out!

What I don't understand is how Labour are going to win back the votes of people who voted leave, by campaigning for a second referendum, and if we don't convince them to vote Labour we will not form a government in 2020.

The second preference votes of people who voted for one of the eliminated candidates are then looked at.

Plus since they have votes of people they represent, with their upvotes / downvotes they would effectively act as moderators.

He asked for the votes of the people of Dagbon.

«My object was to get a vote of the people because the NRA kept killing everything we tried,» Silver said.

A simple vote of the people will not change the abortion laws.

All without a vote of the people.

«If the PDCT wants genuine public backing for its plans, then it should put them out to a vote of the people.

This means that if there are more than two candidates running, a third party candidate can «spoil» the vote for the viable candidate most similar in ideology to him by splitting the vote of people who share their ideology, making the winner the candidate whose ideology actually has less support in the electorate than an alternative.

Alaskans won't stand for any post-election foul play; the accurate vote of the people must stand.»

The Swiss version of democracy is one of the world's most direct, meaning that the vote of the people is able to make laws rather than just elect representatives.

«Article III, § 5 of the State Constitution, reads, in part, «An apportionment by the legislature, or other body, (emphasis added) shall be subject to review by the supreme court... (Amended by vote of the people November 6, 1945.)»

«The vote that matters to me is the vote of people moving into the city, versus out, for the first time since the 50s more people are moving into New York City than out of New York City.»

(Amended by Constitutional Convention of 1938 and approved by vote of the people November 8, 1938; further amended by vote of the people November 7, 1961.)

But because they impact the park's forest preserve, which is protected by the state constitution, they require a vote of the people to move forward.

The Liberal Democrats will fight for Wales and the UK's place in the single market and a vote of the people on the final deal.»

However, if the proposed amendment is approved by a 75 percent or more vote of both chambers of the legislature, it doesn't have to be considered in two consecutive legislative sessions and can instead be put to a vote of the people at the next November general election.

No more transfer of UK powers to Brussels without a vote of the people.

Umahi emphasized that the State was a PDP State, saying «there is no opposition in Ebonyi State, if you want the vote of the people, you come and talk to them, it is not by staying in Abuja making noise.»

Overturning the state's ban on gay marriage «takes two consecutive sessions of the Legislature and a vote of the people to change,» he said.

The city is made of three communities, Taylorsville, Bennion, and Kearns, and formed together after a favorable vote of the people.

In accordance with the KC recommendation, voting of a person for inclusion on Judging Lists, by the ESSC Judges Sub Committee will be by secret ballot.

a statue enacted by a citizen's initiative except by either a three - fourths vote each of the House of Representatives and the senate, or a a vote of the people through a referendum.

The city is made of three communities, Taylorsville, Bennion, and Kearns, and formed together after a favorable vote of the people.

Not exact matches

With city data indicating that African - Americans have been charged with marijuana crimes twice as frequently as white residents, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously in March to allocate 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis sales permits to people affected by the war on drugs.

«At a fundamental level, you're gonna strip people of their power, prestige, money, whatever over a vote?

«It's not that people are motivated to vote but can't make it because of work; it's that they don't think it matters or don't feel sufficiently informed,» he says.

In the wake of the murder of 49 people and the wounding of 53 in Orlando last weekend, Senate Democrats have won the chance to vote Monday on two narrow gun control proposals they sponsored: expanding background checks and barring terror suspects from buying guns.

«The negative, obviously, is that local people can more easily absorb preconceptions and feel pressured to vote a certain way — in other words, the danger of local democratic empowerment is a loss of impartiality.»

The billionaire said «there must have been a lot of people who believed» the infamous slogan on the Vote Leave campaign bus, which said Britain's weekly # 350 million EU membership bill should be spent on the NHS.

Of the approximately 150,000 people who have already voted, the data suggests that 49 % are registered Republicans and 28 % are registered Democrats.

What the British people haven't done is to vote to make us poorer,» Khan said on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

As a county, 57 percent of people in Cornwall voted to leave the European Union.

According to Catalonian authorities, 90 percent of people voted in favor of independence on Sunday, but the national government said the referendum was illegal.

He'll argue that insufficient funding for the NHS over recent years was one of the reasons 52 % of British people voted for Brexit last year.

Noting the recent departure of several key executives, he says, «People have been voting with their feet.»

«That's obviously a very micro level observation but kind of remarkable to have 40 % more people vote in a GOP primary than voted GOP in the last general,» he said.

Pai is also expected to call for an initial vote in December to rescind rules prohibiting one company from owning stations that serve more than 39 percent of U.S. television households, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing two people briefed on the matter.

The announcement of the vote, witnessed by reporters in the Great Hall of the People, passed with two «no» votes and three abstentions among almost 3,000 delegates.

Exxon Mobil (xom) has stepped up efforts to persuade investors to vote against climate - related proposals at Wednesday's annual meeting with a campaign of calling, writing and lobbying shareholders in person.

«The fact that quality people with their resumés are joining the company is a big vote of confidence in what General Fusion is doing,» says the company's chairman, Rick Wills.

«When I won in 2008, 47 % of the American people voted for John McCain, they didn't vote for me,» Obama told Letterman.

Voted one of the top football and sports bars in America by Draft Magazine, Forbes, Esquire and MSN City Guides, the 5 - acre property is legendary to tailgaters, averaging three live bands, three DJs, and 100 part - time employees to manage anywhere between the 6,000 - 8,000 people that show up for a standard Packers home game.